sandwichesandapples

I’m researching / experimenting with open source ecommerce solutions, specifically ones that run in PHP on MySQL. My host company, Dreamhost, provides a one-click install of Zen Cart but I’ve heard that one’s a bit difficult to customize.

I’d heard of Freeway recently but wasn’t really impressed with them. Then there’s the Market Theme, an ecommerce solution for WordPress. But you’ve got to buy that one. It’s cheap and I’m necessarily looking for free but the whole idea of paying for something to add to WordPress seems antithetical to me.

Then yesterday, I found Magento which blows me away. I’m installing it now to put it through its paces. I can’t wait to see how it holds up to ASPStoreFront (my firm’s default ecommerce solution and a ridiculously heavy and user-unfriendly platform that runs on Windows very much not open source server). I’ll let you know.